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pū.kiawe

Haw to Eng, Pukui-Elbert (1986),

n.

1. The black-eyed Susan (Abrus precatorius), a slender climbing legume, long known in the tropics, especially for its small round red and black seeds, which are used for leis, rosaries, and costume jewelry. Though the seeds are edible when cooked, when raw and broken they are poisonous. Flowers are small, light-colored; leaves small, compound. (Neal 455–6.) Also pūpūkiawe, pūkiawe lei, to distinguish from pūkiawe 2 and pūkiawe ʻulaʻula on Niʻihau.

2. Native shrubs and small trees (Styphelia [Cyathodes], all species and varieties), 1 to 2 (rarely 4.5) m high, common near Kī-lau-ea Volcano, bearing narrow leaves 1.3 cm long, tiny whitish flowers, and many round red to white fruits .6 cm in diameter. The leaves were used medicinally for cold or headache. (Neal 663–4.) Also ʻaʻaliʻi mahu, kānehoa, kāwaʻu, maiele, pūpūkiawe.

pūkiawe

Haw to Eng, Kent (1986),

Shrub at lower levels, a small tree or shrub at higher elevations (Styphelia spp.). The trunk is rather twisted in a finely corrugated brown bark. It occurs on all islands. Legend has it that a chief who wished to mingle with his people would shut himself in a little house and smudge himself from a fire of the pūkiawe shrub. See maiele. (NEAL 663.)

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